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I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

Guillermo del Toro

I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. “Put your tooth under the pillow.” I was like “Why does someone want my teeth?”.
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Creepy Kids Teeth
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
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Drinking London People
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
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Guy Horror Shoes
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There’s no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
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Fun Ghost Stories Way
Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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Interesting Looks Safe
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken – rather than being careful with them in the first place.
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Broken Hard Thinking Work
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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Ghouls Super Two Vampire
What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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Film Firsts Geek
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don’t compromise, you don’t make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It’s never been easy.
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Compromise Despair Easy
There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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Done Portraits Style
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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Abyss Genius Mystery
For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Backbone Devil Neurotic

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

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